How to Crochet a Quick Floral Mug Rug for Spring

This is a free crochet pattern for how to crochet a floral mug rug perfect to sit your coffee/tea on and a sweet treat, or use as a doily.

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It’s May! You know what that means? Time for April Showers Bring May Flowers! Last year, I shared a Forget me Not Applique, Easy Floral Coasters, an Easy Floral Coin Purse, Lily’s Floral Table Runner and Lily’s Floral Wall Hanging.

This mug rug is perfect for sitting your coffee/tea on it and a sweet treat on the other flower. I love this Hanging Plants Coffee Mug I got from MoonwakeDesignsCo on Etsy. This cup is smooth and comfortable to hold with an awesome hanging plant design. This is the larger 15 ounce one, but if I ordered another, I would like to try the 11 ounce size as I think it would be a little better for the amount of coffee I brew with my Keurig.

Or use it as a doily! This coconut soy cactus candle from InspireLites on Etsy is lovely! This particular one is the Vanilla Mint scent, which really combines the two scents well, but the Baja Cactus Blossom is my favorite! You can order yourself one of these awesome candles RIGHT HERE!

Here’s a sneak peek at one of my upcoming April Showers projects! It’s going to be a cardigan using a lightweight #3 yarn – I’m using Emma’s Comfy Cotton from Four Purls. How cute is this Eucalyptus bag I got from MoonwakeDesignsCo on Etsy?! It’s really a cosmetic bag, but the perfect size for storing and carrying around my hooks and other important tools, like scissors. This one can be personalized with a name on it, but I wanted just the flowers.

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Materials:

• 31 Yards of Worsted Weight Yarn Total – I used Knit Picks Dishie in (MC) Bumblebee for the flower centers, in (CB) White and Azure for the petals, and in (CC) Honeydew for the Leaves
• H8/5mm Crochet Hook
• Tapestry Needle for Weaving in Ends
• Optional, Jewelry Pliers

Material Notes:

Yarn Alternatives to Dishie: Lily Sugar n Cream, Red Heart’s Smoothie

Each flower requires almost 12 yards of yarn.

As a mug rug, I prefer cotton yarn. As a doily, acrylic works (though I would probably still use the cotton). Cotton yarn is more durable, and absorbent.

Jewelry pliers are an excellent tool to use to help weave in ends, as cotton yarn can be quite tough on the fingers when weaving in with just fingers and a tapestry needle.

Time Spent:

• Flowers: Just over 15 minutes each.
• Half Leaves: 3 minutes each.
• Mug Rug: Just under 1 hour.

Measurements:

• Flower: Taken from the position of one petal at the top center, 3.63″ wide by 4.13″ from tip of top petal to tip of bottom petal
• Mug Rug: 4.75” tall by 7.25” wide

Abbreviations (US Terms):

• SC – Single Crochet (Photo Tutorial)
• DC – Double Crochet (Photo Tutorial)
• TR – Treble Crochet (yarn over 2x)
• QUAD – Quadruple Crochet (yarn over 3x)
• HDC – Half Double Crochet (Photo Tutorial)

Pattern Notes:

Beginning chain does not count as a stitch, except for in the leaves.

Join to the first stitch of the round, not the beginning chain. In the petals, joining is done to the first double crochet to lessen the height gap.

How I worked my yarn color change: after joining, turn to the new working side. Pull the new color through, then pull the original color tight (it will disappear).

You can also work in the more traditional ways of pulling new color through in the last yarn over of the previous stitch (I do have a basic photo tutorial if needed – How to Change Yarn Colors in Crochet) or fastening off the center color, and rejoining the new color in any stitch, but I find the way I did it much easier, and it hides the color change.

I work my increases a little different than most, and that is that the first stitch from the first set of increases is done in the first stitch of the round, which will appear just to left of the beginning chain, then the round will be worked as normal, and the final stitch of the round will be the second stitch of the first set of increases, and it will be worked into the same stitch as the first, and appear just to the right of the beginning chain. You can see a photo tutorial of this in my How to Keep a Straight Seam post.

Though there are only three rounds, and a straight seam isn’t really an issue, this is my preferred method – you can work in your preferred increase method for the center as long as you end up with 24 stitches.

Outline:

You will work the first flower, then work the second flower using the join-as-you-go (JAYG) technique (photo tutorial on page 4) to attach it to the first, then work and attach the half leaves to the center gap between the flowers, also using the JAYG technique (photo tutorial on page 5), then work a final border around.

1st Flower:

In Yellow, chain 5. Slip stitch to the first chain to form a ring. Chain 1. Work 12 DC into the ring. Join. (12 DC)

R2: Chain 2. DC into the 1st DC, 2 DC into each of the next 11 DC, DC into the same DC as the 1st. Join with CB, and fasten off Yellow. (24 DC)

R3: In CB, chain 1. SC into the 1st stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, [SC into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch] 5x. Join. (6 Petals, 6 SC)

Fasten off, and weave in ends.

2nd Flower:

R1 – 2: Same as 1st Flower.

R3: Chain 1. SC into the 1st stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, SC into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, SC into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC into the next stitch, chain 1, from behind: SC into the corresponding chain space of the previous flower, in current flower: 3 DC into the same stitch, skip the next stitch, SC into the next stitch, skip the next stitch) 2x, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, SC into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch. Join, and fasten off.

Photo Tutorial Showing How to Work Behind:

Insert hook into the petal chain space of the previous flower…

… and complete SC.

… in current flower: 3 DC into the same stitch to complete petal.

Half Leaves in the Center Between the Flowers – Work 2:

In Green, chain 5. Slip stitch join to the first chain to form a ring. Chain 2, DC into the ring, chain 1, from behind: SC into a SC that is in between petals, chain 1, 3 DC into the ring, chain 1, from behind: SC into a SC that is in between petals, chain 1, 2 DC into the ring. Fasten off.

Final Border

Join yarn on the flower on the right at the top center petal chain space. Chain 1. SC into this 1st stitch, [chain 4, work 5 SC evenly along the side of the half petal with the third stitch into the center ring, chain 4, SC into the center of the next petal chain space, (2 TR, chain 2, QUAD, chain 2, 2 TR) into the next SC, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 3, HDC into the next SC, chain 3, SC into the next petal chain space, (2 TR, chain 2, QUAD, chain 2, 2 TR) into the next SC], SC into the next petal chain space, repeat [ … ], then join to the 1st SC and fasten off.

Weave in all ends.

Please feel free to make and sell your own Lily’s Floral Mug Rug, but please DO NOT claim this pattern as your own nor should you sell my pattern, and DO NOT re-publish my photos as your own. DO NOT copy and paste my pattern anywhere, link to it instead.

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